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and feci myfelf highly honoured by the approbation 

 which the Bath and Weft of England Agricultural 

 Society are plcafed to exprefs of my fmall pamphlet 

 refpeding a better mode of 'providing for the Poor^ 

 publiflied in 17835 and if my feeble efforts can be 

 of any avail, in feconding the endeavours of fo re- 

 ipedlable a Society, to bring about a more equal 

 diftribution of the bounties of Providence among 

 all the fons of men ; I can affure you, that as it has 

 been always an object indeed very near my hearty 

 it will give me the moft unfeigned fatisfafbion. 



In that pamphlet I endeavoured to give, in the 

 moft condenjed form, the principal advantages, both 

 pofitive and negative, which might reafonably be 

 expedted from fuch a regulation ; and now, after the 

 lapfe of eight years, I cannot call to mind any addi- 

 tional arguments \vhich are likely to convince thofe 

 whofe underftandings the former ftatement did not 

 reach. If the Society do me the honour, therefore^ 

 (which I much wifh) to infert my paper in their 

 next volume, I fliould v^rifh only to corred the fev7 

 errors of the prefs as marked in the copy herewith 

 fent, and to add the two notes, which by fome mif- 

 take of the printer, were formerly omitted j for as 

 t9 entering on the pradical part, or framing a bill 

 by which the plan might be carried into executionjj 



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